Common Intensive Skills Activity Examples

Careers Service

• Intensive Skills Day

• Enterprise Conferences / Courses

• Lloyds Scholar Developmental weekend

Departmental activity

• Law Clinic

• Professional Skills Development Unit - SPAIS

Students’ Union

• Part Time Officer

• Course rep / JCR rep

• Society / Sports / Student Council committee member

• Volunteering / RAG executive role

• Burst Radio / UBTV position / Epigram position

• Student Quality Reviewer

• AIESEC Awards

Bristol Hub & Enactus

• Bristol Hub or Enactus volunteering / committee role

• Bristol Hub – Social Innovation Programme

• Bristol Hub – International Development conference

Sport

• Sports Leadership Award

• Coaching Award / Qualification / Certificate

• Lifeguard / Swim teacher / PADI qualification

Halls of residence

• Any Senior Resident role or training

Sustainability

• Carbon Audit Training Course / Green Impact Audit Training

• Waste Audit Training AND follow on report

• Green-enterprise hackathon

• Sustainable Lab Member / Leader

University Student Recruitment, Access and Admissions

• University Open Day Steward or Team Leader / Campus tour guide

• Student Ambassador / Schools Tutor

• Students in School Programme

• Any mentoring position including peer mentoring

• PASS leader

• Student tele-campaign advisor

Training, courses, competitions and other professional development

• Training course / conference

• NVQ qualifications

• First Aid course / Language course

• Employer insight days / weeks / assessment centres

• Employer challenge or competition

• MOOC

• Bristol is Global competition

Additional examples for research students

• Organise a conference / a session at a conference / seminar series

• Present your research at a conference / public event / poster session

• Starting to Teach / Brilliant club teaching programme

• Three minute thesis competition

• Submit a successful funding bid

• Participate in the Research without Borders event

What should I do if my activity isn’t listed?

Please choose ‘other’ from the intensive skills activity drop down list and submit details. Any

work or volunteering role can be used as long as it is different from your work experience role.